[android-kernel] Linux Kernel Testing Results by Linaro — Jan 23rd 2019 Edition

(Note if this is of interest to you, feel free to follow me on medium, where results will be posted weekly on Wednesday https://medium.com/@thomasagall) One of the things that we do at Linaro is testing Linux Kernels to look for kernel regressions. Ideally we want a world where those that

[android-kernel] How to verify the android 9 system verity and mount the rootfs(actually the system.img)?

Dears, I'm studying the android 9.0 ramdisk mechanism system-as-root is mandatory on android 9.0. Assume: 1.use android9.0 + Kernel-4.4 2.system-as-root is enabled 3.here is a non-A/B scenario Checking the soruce code: *static int __init populate_rootfs(void)* *{* * char *err;* * if

[android-kernel] why msm kernel has both 3.18 and 4.4 in 8.1.0 oreo releases

for example, https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/msm/+/android-8.1.0_r0.78/Makefile has 4.4 kernel while https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/msm/+/android-8.1.0_r0.117/Makefile has 3.18.73 kernel, so the newer minor release 117 has much older kernel than a previous minor release